Johnny Cash - Reflections lyrics
[Johnny Cash - Reflections lyrics]
Never in this world before
Or nevermore hereafter
Could a land know such a people
As the pioneer the cowboy
His clothes his conversation his
Unique brand of lingo
All his devil deeds of daring his hat his
Bandana the dirty boots and ragged chaps
But mainly that sixgun dangling so's his
Hand could get it quickly
But draw your own conclusions lean
To your own understandings
Your beliefs and your convictions
Disprove any fact recorded in these
Sounds and songs and legends
But I ask you if you do be
Sure you've walked in many mocassins
Over many many pathways and that
You have listened carefully
Really listened to the west wind
And to everything it whispers
And then go back and listen listen to this
Once more to these legends and traditions
They're only one reflection of a tick
Of time of that time
Just ponder on the things that happened
As we gaze so very deeply in
The time and place and persons
Seeing now and then the West as it really was
And to tell you of a little that we saw there
And looking backward through a century
There was the True West there
Was the Real True West
Not demanding an argument but rather
Hoping you looked with us
And saw it as we saw it
And heard that west wind
Screaming shouting almost speaking
Always whispering of these things we
Sang and spoke of
And you'll hear perhaps the things the
We said in the stories
And the legends and traditions
Through the wind that breeze these tales of
The ones who never made it
Yet fighting heat and mountains plains
And valleys snow and hunger
They went westward westward westward
Or nevermore hereafter
Could a land know such a people
As the pioneer the cowboy
His clothes his conversation his
Unique brand of lingo
All his devil deeds of daring his hat his
Bandana the dirty boots and ragged chaps
But mainly that sixgun dangling so's his
Hand could get it quickly
But draw your own conclusions lean
To your own understandings
Your beliefs and your convictions
Disprove any fact recorded in these
Sounds and songs and legends
But I ask you if you do be
Sure you've walked in many mocassins
Over many many pathways and that
You have listened carefully
Really listened to the west wind
And to everything it whispers
And then go back and listen listen to this
Once more to these legends and traditions
They're only one reflection of a tick
Of time of that time
Just ponder on the things that happened
As we gaze so very deeply in
The time and place and persons
Seeing now and then the West as it really was
And to tell you of a little that we saw there
And looking backward through a century
There was the True West there
Was the Real True West
Not demanding an argument but rather
Hoping you looked with us
And saw it as we saw it
And heard that west wind
Screaming shouting almost speaking
Always whispering of these things we
Sang and spoke of
And you'll hear perhaps the things the
We said in the stories
And the legends and traditions
Through the wind that breeze these tales of
The ones who never made it
Yet fighting heat and mountains plains
And valleys snow and hunger
They went westward westward westward